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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Typically, these patterns arise out of a combination of approaches by my partners and me: proactive searching for startups in specific categories, reacting to what entrepreneurs pitch, and translating valuable learning from making one investment over to making another. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company. Image credit: kelsey -knight-unsplash.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Well, the first group of winners will undoubtedly be the tens of millions of American entrepreneurs - and eventually hundreds of millions of worldwide - that for the first time in human history will have access to on-demand capital for their creative and future-focused projects and initiatives. These businesses - think of the Inc.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Do agencies need labs? – [link].

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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. Make sure you have enough demand to support your network - make sure they can spend most of their time working and earning. I bet Uber has phenomenal metrics in this regard for their drivers.

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